With all due respect for what seems to be an unusually charming and harmless religion, it is surprising, for me at least, to ...

The inauguration Mass on May 18 will be the formal installation ceremony where Pope Leo XIV will receive the Fisherman’s Ring and the pallium as symbols of his papal office. The “taking possession” ...

Was the Phoenician writing system a true alphabet? If not, what should it be called instead, and what was the earliest true alphabet?

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Emma Raducanu registered one of her most dominant wins of the year as she annihilated Jil Teichmann 6-2 6-2 to reach the ...

The United States had 10 voting cardinals in the conclave, the second-highest number of any country after Italy. Four of them ...

Conceptual problems, ideology clashes and xenophobia prevented the concept of zero from catching on for a long time. Today ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been announced as the new pontiff and has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV. There are no written ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, celebrated his first Mass as pontiff on Friday, ...

Stock futures were mostly up on Friday after news of an improving trade relationship with the U.K and hopes for talks with China sparked a rally. Trump outlined the benefits for both the U.S. and the ...

Court documents show the company commissioned a sham report and lied on the stand to justify its actions, which will cast a ...

White smoke from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday signaled that the cardinals have selected the next leader of the Catholic ...